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Iceland has just approved the killing of 2,000 whales over the course of the next five years. The country's government is allowing whaling companies to slaughter 217 minke and 209 fin whales per year until 2025, sparking...

From EurekAlert! Public Release: 17-Jan-2019 Seafloor predators and open-water feeding animals will benefit from climate change, while those associated with sea ice for food or breeding are most at risk Frontiers Marine Antarctic...

Narwhals, or the "unicorns of the sea," could be at risk from additional Arctic shipping routes as polar ice continues to recede. A peer-reviewed study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests...

In 2019, two beluga whales, named Little Grey and Little White, will be transported from the Changfeng Ocean World aquarium in Shanghai to the world's first whale sanctuary in a protected bay in Iceland...

Japanese hunters recently killed 122 pregnant minke whales as part of a so-called field survey, the BBC reported. The hunters caught the whales for scientific study — even though in 2014 the United Nations ruled against...

People have occasionally glimpsed tailless whales in western North America, but a recent spike in sightings has troubled scientists. This year alone, at least three flukeless gray whales have been spotted near California....

If we remove plastic from the world's waterways, what happens to it next? Amsterdam-based Plastic Whale, the "first professional plastic-fishing company in the world" according to founder Marius Smit, came up with a creative...

Microplastics pose a huge threat to aquatic life - particularly large filter feeders such as whale sharks, manta rays, and baleen whales. Filter feeders are at high risk because of their constant sifting through ocean water...

The impact of humanity's pollution on nature became all too real in a heartbreaking clip from Blue Planet II. A mother pilot whale grieved her dead baby, carrying it around with her. The calf may have died because of industrial...

A beluga whale living in captivity with a pod of bottlenose dolphins learned to communicate using their unique "language" or sounds. Detailed in a new study published in the journal Animal Cognition, the extraordinary inter-species...

When a bowhead whale washed ashore at Wrangel Island in Russia, the polar bears were ready. Between 150 and 230 bears gathered to eat the carcass, and tourists captured the experience on camera. As there are around 26,000...

A beached whale is a tragic sight - but a community of sun-worshippers in Brazil refused to sit by when it happened on their beach. Hundreds of people rallied around a stranded humpback whale in Buzios, digging around the...

A large number of humpback whale mortalities along the United States' East Coast has scientists concerned. 41 humpback whales perished between Maine and North Carolina in the last 15 months, prompting a National Oceanic and...